The lucky €16 ticket, with numbers picked by the player, was bought just hours before the draw in Tesco in Mullingar, Co Westmeath where Bobby Horan still works as a butcher.

And it seems the shop is a lucky one as a couple pocketed €10 million from a €4 Quick Pick Lotto ticket they bought there back in 2013.

Kevin Geoghegan, 48, and Carol Loran, 41, who are both from Mullingar, scooped a bank-busting €10 million between them from a ticket they bought in the Tesco store.

The pair had only just started dating when they hit the jackpot, but split up soon after.

Dad-of-three Kevin said at the time: “We went to Puerto Rico in Gran Canaria and had a great time altogether.

“But things are not the same now. She is doing her own thing and I am doing my own thing a lot.

“Things didn’t work out, that’s the way it goes.”

And now the lucky Tesco store is back in the headlines after making another millionaire.

One Direction superstar Niall’s dad lives just around the corner from the store on Ashe Road, where he has continued to work since his son shot to stardom.

But the identity of who scooped the whopping jackpot is still a mystery, with speculation rife that it was a syndicate.

The Tesco in Mullingar - site of the winning ticket

Delighted Tesco store manager Joe Ryall told the Irish Mirror: “I got the news this morning and the excitement between colleagues and customers alike to see what’s happened there in the store was great.

“The girls on the desk would know the people that come in every week doing the lotto.

“It was a busy enough day, a normal Saturday that you would see there so there would be a lot of different transactions happening.

“It would be a good mix, a country shop like Mullingar, you would have families shopping on Saturdays. It would be one of the busiest shopping days of the week.”

But Joe hopes the lucky winner or winners are local.

He added: “We’d like to think that it was one of the local customers who play lotto here every week that won. The rumour circulating around town is that it was a syndicate.”

The winning numbers drawn were 2, 5, 13, 17, 32, 34 and the bonus number was 45.

It’s not the first time the shop sold a massive winning lotto jackpot ticket.